4. You’re Next
While there’s no one poster from You’re Next that I’d be willing to call the best of the year, that film may win campaign of the year. Almost every poster is an impressive piece, with drastically different styles spanning the various sheets. Still, as impressive as they all are, the one poster that stands out far above the rest is the map poster.
In any home invasion movie, the house is almost a character in itself. For this poster, it’s clear that the house is much more important than any of the characters. At times the film attempts to deconstruct the genre, and this poster deconstructs the traditional horror poster format, stepping away from the gore and the scares to lay things out in a logical way.
Obviously, it’s far more intricate than any poster you would usually see. This isn’t the sort of poster you could glance at while driving and have enough of. This is the sort of poster that would cause a 10-car pile-up due to you trying to sort out all the details of it. (I really hope this wasn’t on a billboard anywhere.) You could even get this laminated and turned into a board for some sadistic new version of Clue. Regardless of where this poster will be found, it’s far better than your typical piece of film art.
Published: Dec 30, 2013 02:59 am